By Beatrice Gondyi
Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammed has donated empowerment items worth 55 million Naira to residents of Ganjuwa local government area of Bauchi state.
The empowerment items include grinding machines, sewing machines, knitting kits, motorcycles, and other items to beneficiaries in the LGA.
Governor Bala while presenting the items at the local government Secretariat on Tuesday, Charged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the items in order to maximize the benefits, saying that aside from Infrastructural development in the state, one of the priorities of his administration is to empower the lives of the citizens of the state through the acquisition of skills.
” This gesture by the government is aimed at getting people of the area out of poverty, make them self-reliant as well as making them become employers of labor. When people are empowered in the businesses they are doing, others will benefit”
“I assure that my administration will continue to provide an enabling environment for people of the state to be gainfully engaged because when people are engaged in meaningful ventures, social vices such as crime and criminality will reduce to the barest minimum,” he said
The governor said that the beneficiaries were carefully selected from among the poorest of the poor who actually needed the support in order to take them out of poverty so that they will in turn support their families.
In his brief remarks, State Chairman of the PDP, Hamza Koshe Akuyam said that the PDP-led administration is committed to seeing that poverty was eradicated among the people, adding that no meaningful development can be made amidst abject poverty.
Koshe Akuyam said that by the end of the four years of the PDP-led administration, the people of the state will be able to differentiate the administration from previous administrations in terms of delivery of dividends of democracy.
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Also Speaking, the First Lady of Bauchi State, Aisha Bala Mohammed assured women that her foundation, Almuhhibah Foundation will continue to support them through various skills Acquisition programs in order to make them self-reliant.
She assured that her office is always ready to listen to the plight of women in order to find solutions to such because according to her, women hold important positions in the political process of the state.
